Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] is this the right tool to .....

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From: David Moore <davem@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:38:15 -0400
I don't think Ethereal would be a good choice for this.

Take a look at NTOP  http://www.ntop.org/



Kevin Maguire wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am wondering if ethereal is the best (or one of the best) tools to
> help me with the following issues:
>
> I would like to understand better how my many client systems access
> various servers/services.  For example my mail server runs several
> services - pop/imap/imap+ssl/sendmail/NFS - and I would like to
> understand the load on each.  Of course each service has it's own
> measuring facility (mailstats/nfsstat/syslog/...) but a
> traffic/service and traffic/client picture over the course of a week
> would I think help me better plan my network and size my servers.  Can
> ethereal be the tool to produce such an output.
>
> The majority of my servers are Solaris, the rest Linux.  I guess I
> could code something with snoop/tcpdump and/or perl/awk scripts, but
> maybe there is a pre-rolled recipe out there somewhere!?
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
>
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